206463 - unable to send or save email D:\Docume~1\G1/4NTR~LOCALS~1\TEMP\nsmail.html

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Günter Karl Adams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
Build Identifier: 

unable to send or save my email
message,
D:\Docume~1\G1/4NTR~\Locals~1\Temp\nsmail.html

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

3.

Actual Results:  
none

Expected Results:  
fix

none

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

I assume this should be the path to the Local directory: of your mail account:
D:\Docume~1\G1/4NTR~LOCALS~1\TEMP\nsmail.html

Mine is:
D:\LONG-NAME\Mail\mail.myprovider-world.de

So you don´t need to specify short names like Docume~1, you can name it
Documents\G1\4NTR... but try to replace the slash in \G1/4NTR with a backslash:
\G1\4NTR

or is that slash the second character in the name of the directory 1/4NTR ?

Comment 2

[Adam Macznik]

It's probably a problem with special [non-ascii] characters in user profile
names on WinXP.

I don't have WinXP, so I can't test it, but someone reported similar problem on
a polish newsgroup:
<translated quote>
When I try to post a newsgroup message I get an error:
"Cannot open temporary file C:\DOCUME~1\?UKASZ\USTAWI~1\TEMP\nsmail.eml. Check
the settings for working directory and try again."
</translated quote>
(The message is translated back from Polish, so it may be inaccurate).

The "?" sign should be a non-ascii character used in a profile name, but it
appears that Mozilla really tries to write to a directory with "?"...

Anyone can test it on WinXP? (you'd have to use a non-ascii Win-profile name...)

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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